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So how are instances defederated?
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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2023
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What would happen if one of the larger instances goes away? Can the content be archived and preserved through the federation?
Yes
If an instance is nuked off the planet, anything federated in the past can be accessed from wherever else the content was sucessfully federated to
But the community itself is effectively dead, any content posted there would only appear in the posters instance and not go to everyone else.
Yepp this is an important point - completely forgot to clarify this lol.
The community would mostly only be useful as an archival source at that point, a bit like vlemmy and fmhy.ml communities now
Does this also help with rollbacks? Beehaw had one last weekend that lost a few hours worth of content